The SCAE Awards for Coffee Excellence (#)
„Named as one of Egypt’s top 10 entrepreneurs under the age of 40, Maher Maksoud has built a successful career as an entrepreneur making his most recent mark in the services industry, in particular in the provision of specialty coffee in Egypt. Maksoud has successfully fulfilled a vision for bringing specialty coffee outlets to Egypt and plans to expand this vision throughout the region. Maksoud’s achievement in leading Cilantro to success will no doubt serve as the model for all entrepreneurs who have a vision and seek to fulfil it, but specifically serves as a model of success within the specialty coffee community worldwide.“
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PR Distribution through United Natural Foods
„CANTON, MA - March 8th, 2003 - Equal Exchange, the nation's leading fair trade coffee company, today announces national distribution through United Natural Foods, a leading independent national distributor of natural foods and related products. Through this arrangement select Equal Exchange products will for the first time be easily available to thousands of retailers nationwide. Working with United Natural Foods in this way significantly advances Equal Exchange's long term strategy of putting their gourmet and organic fair trade products within easy reach of America's natural food shoppers.“
http://www.equalexchange.com/news_info/ pr3.03v2.htm
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„CANTON, MA - September 16, 2003 - Equal Exchange, the 60 person employee-owned cooperative that has led the nation in Fair Trade coffee sales since creating the category in 1986, expressed disappointment today at the very modest scope of Procter & Gamble's recent decision to begin selling a Fair Trade Certified™ coffee under its Millstone brand. (see http://www.csrwire.com/article.cgi/2117.html for additional details.)“
http://www.equalexchange.com/news_info/ pr9.16.03.htm
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„CANTON, MA—July 3rd, 2002—Equal Exchange, the nation's leading purveyor of fair trade coffee, has announced that the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company is carrying its packaged coffees and tea in approximately 35 of its stores throughout Connecticut and Western Massachusetts, making it one of the first supermarket chains in the U.S. to offer consumers such a wide line of fairly-traded, organic beverages.“
http://www.equalexchange.com/news_info/ pr7.02.html
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„CANTON, MA—March 7, 2002—Equal Exchange, the nation’s leader in fairly traded gourmet coffee, announced today record payments of $960,000 in above-market fair trade premiums to small farmer cooperatives in 2001. With coffee growing communities in many developing nations continuing to struggle with record low market prices and deepening poverty, a growing number of small farmers are benefiting from their trade partnership with Equal Exchange.“
http://www.equalexchange.com/news_info/ pr3.02v1.htm
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Indiacoffee - Indian Coffee, Monthly magazine - Cover Story - The North-East Coffee Eco-Type
„A dualistic society, which distanced the traditional from the modern was created in North-East India as a result. While prospecting for oil in the Brahmaputra valley during the 19th century, British entrepreneurs stumbled upon Camellia sinensis (the tea plant). What followed was the phenomenal growth of India's tea plantation industry in the North-Eastern States of Bengal and Assam. This development, while positioning India's prominence in the world tea market, had an interesting (but un-noticed) casualty, namely, Coffee.“
http://www.indiacoffee.org/newsletter/12/ coverstory.html
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